21st June 2014

President Des Shaw This newsletter is a little different. Hon Treasurer Paul Thomson [email protected] It is usually sent through newsletters on line but Hon Sec. Pam Sowter [email protected] their website is experiencing problems. Editor Cecilie McIntyre [email protected] I would like ICNZ Members to receive this before the TV Coverage of Wimbledon starts, so I am using a different process to get it sent today.

Wimbledon on TV

Coverage will be different from past years.

ESPN will show coverage nightly from 11pm until 8 am...starting Monday evening 23rd June.

Thanks to the members who have been phoning Sky fre- quently to ask about coverage.

We have been told several times, as recently as 2 days ago that they were still negotiating rights.

They do need to know NZ'ers want the chance to view these matches even though it is played during our nights.

MY SKY and other recording devices will be very busy over the next 2 weeks. Hopefully there will also be repeats during the daytime. These may be on a different Sky Sport Channel.

News of Members

Marina Erakovic

Overnight Marina and her Spanish partner , Arantxa Parra Santonja won the WTA Doubles Final at

's-Hertogenbosch in Holland. Earlier they had beaten the top seeds.

With a score of 0/6 7/6 (10-8 in the super tiebreak) it was a remarkable turnaround against 3rd seeded Krajicek and Mladenovic. Especially after trailing 0/6 2/5 and saving 3 match points during their catch up to force a 2nd set tiebreak which they won 7-5.

In the singles Marina lost first round to American player Coco Vandeweghe 7/5 in the 3rd set. It was a 2 hour 25 minute battle ...Marina won more points than Coco!

Coco has gone on to defeat several seeded players to reach the final. We wish Marina well for Wimbledon next week, as she has points to defend after reaching the 3rd round last year. Alan Chester Jill Bignell comments :

Tennis followers around the country will have been thrilled to see the name of ICNZ member Alan Chester in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for 2014. Alan was announced as an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to tennis over a period of 20 plus years. Alan commenced his tennis playing career at the Milford Tennis Club and then progressed to the Parnell Tennis Club in the early 1950's. Even at that time he demonstrated his ability as a voluntary worker for tennis when he was part of a large working group, which helped to move the Parnell Lawn Tennis Club from its original site where the Auckland Cathe- dral is now, to its present home in the Domain. He was one of NZ's leading juniors in those days and moved around the country playing successfully in all the tournaments. He had a break from tennis for a period of about 20 years after his marriage to Janice and then re-emerged as part of the popular NZ Veteran's circuit. In this age group Alan was hugely successful in the many Provincial, National and International tournaments in which he played and his record of wins will be hard to surpass.

He will also be remembered for his many years of service to the Blockhouse Bay Tennis Club, both as a play- er and administrator. His voluntary contribution to tennis is impressive: • Secretary of the Foundation Board of Tennis Auckland 1992 – 2004. • Chair of Tennis Auckland from 2004-2013. • The driving force behind the establishment of the Seed Foundation, which was formed to support financially, outstanding players in NZ Tennis. • Board member of Tennis New Zealand from 2005-2012. • Life Member of Tennis Auckland in 2013.

This award is fantastic recognition for everything that Alan has contributed to Tennis. He has always said that he enjoyed repaying tennis for all the support he had from so many people in the early days. This has been done many times over!!!! On behalf of everybody in the game we would like to congratulate Alan, his wife Janice and all his family on this very exciting achievement.

IC Council News

Bahama Doubles, Junior Challenge and Future IC events

THE BAHAMAS ANNOUNCE THE THIRD "BAHAMAS IC DOUBLES WEEK" - January 11-17th 2015 Details of this popular event and how to enter are available through emailing Pam Sowter.

Please go to The Bahamas IC website which gives information about this event including photos and re- sults from the last two events.

IC Junior Challenge Finals Kit Spencer spoke about the forthcoming Junior Challenge Finals being held at Wimbledon next month, 27th July – 1st August. The countries that had made it through to the finals are: South Africa, Japan, Italy, Argentina, Great Britain, USA.

The 2015 regional qualifying locations were being finalised and probable locations are: USA, Spain, Argen- tina and South Africa. The location of the Asian qualifying round was uncertain but discussions were taking place with Mimi Yoshii.

The next location for the Finals in 2016 was tentatively, Monte Carlo. Kit felt that the standard of the Junior Challenge was increasing and it was proving a popular event.

Julian has produced a book detailing the 10 year history of the Junior Challenge which would go to print after this year’s event. Future Events Calendar for IC Countries

2015 – Canada celebrates 50 years

2016 – Barbados celebrate 10 years

2017 – Bulgaria celebrates 10 years

2017 – Hong Kong celebrates 25 years

2018 – Japan celebrate 40 years

Here is the link to the IC Council website IC Council. It is easy to browse through the general news and that of all the countries. No password needed, just click on the names below the flags.

Marion Bartoli

Current Wimbledon Champion Marion has expressed an interest in becoming involved in IC activities and she is the confirmed speaker at the IC Ball before the Wimbledon Championships. The Council will be propos- ing her as one of its Vice-Presidents (in succession to Virginia Wade whose term of office has expired) with specific responsibilities for Philan- thropy

Subs

A reminder the subs accounts have been sent for the 2014 year. We urge you to pay these as soon as possible please.

Thanks to the 82 who are up to date. The USUAL STRAGGLERS have shown up in the ‘To Pay’ Subs list

PLEASE PAY PAUL NOW if you are one of these. The sub remains at $50

Paul Thomson, P.O.Box 308093 Manly, Whangaparaoa 0952

or direct credited to ASB 12-3011-0310411-00. Please make sure your name is recorded against the payment.

The new members who have recently accepted our invitation to join ICNZ have already paid their subs for this year... We pay an affiliation fee to the Council who work on our behalf in many ways too. Our overseas based and Travelling Members do not get charged a sub. Remember that if you are able to join in the morning teas at either or both of the International tourna- ments in early January we are now able to offer a Redwood Stand seat to the women for the ASB and the men for the Heineken Open on those Mondays. We also can arrange a free ground pass for a partner or friend to attend with you, and 2 ground passes for the 'other' morning tea, so this gives you extra good value for your $50 annual subscription. We encourage members from outside Auckland to plan early to attend one or both of these.

Ordering details will be coming in August. Dates will be ...... ASB Classic Monday 5th January 2015. Heineken Open Monday 12th January. Drop Shots

Andy Murray wants to help players struggling on the tennis breadline

Andy Murray will earn £1.76m if he successfully defends his Wimbledon title in July, but he is very aware that if you win a tournament at the lowest level of the men's tour you can walk away out of pocket.

Prize money on the third-tier ITF Futures Circuit has not increased since the tour was remodelled 16 years ago.

The cost of living has risen 53% since 1998, yet a winner's cheque can remain as low as £850.

If you lose at the quarter-final stage, you may have to get by on just £175.

"If you win the tournament that week, you can just about pay for your hotel room and travel," Murray told BBC Sport. "You're losing money."

But the Wimbledon champion has an idea.

He thinks the world's most successful players and tournaments could subsidise the events that nurture the tal- ent of the future.

"We want to make tennis a better sport and we want to make it easier for more players to make a living," said Murray.

"It's not about making millions, it's about being able to make a living.

"There's a lot of players that have to stop when they are 21 or 22 be- cause they can't afford to play the game because the prize money is not high enough

"The Grand Slams obviously make a lot of money and the players at the top of the game could certainly help with that, too." Novak Quotes from Novak during the French Championships:

On the mental qualities that make him a strong player: “Resilience, persistence, just faith in general, just belief that there is better tomorrow. And in the end of the day, appreciation for everything that you have in life. Be- cause I know how it is (to have) nothing in the life, really starting from scratch. And then being able to play the sport that I love and having an opportunity to be two years in a row the best in this sport and winning Grand Slams, it's a blessing. So I try not to take that for granted."

On speaking other languages (Djokovic has been conducting all of his on-court interviews in French at Ro- land Garros this year): “I like languages. I think it's always nice, as a foreigner, coming into a country, some other country that you're not coming from and learning at least the basics from their languages, is a nice ges- ture, in a way. It's a respect to that culture. So how many I speak? Enough to communicate (in) around five, six languages.”

Our thoughts are with Brian and Margaret Woolf after Brian’s recent health problems.

President Des Shaw has recently represented NZ and Australia at the IC Council meeting held during the French Open, he will report back in the next newsletter.

Finally, I hope you are able to open the links on this newsletter and can contribute to the next one.

The main reason for this one is to let you know about the Wimbledon coverage.

For the committee,

Cecilie [email protected]